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For biological and medical research it is important to be able to look at living and therefore wet specimens. As was pointed out by H. WOLTER [1] in 1952, an X-ray microscope operating in the wavelength region 2.36 nm ≤ λ ≤ 4.5 nm would be suitable for this purpose. In this “water window” cell organelles absorb radiation more strongly than water. Therefore specimens in a wet environment can be imaged with sufficient contrast.
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Hilkenbach, R., Thieme, J., Guttmann, P., Niemann, B. (1988). Phase Zone Plates for the Göttingen X-Ray Microscopes. In: Sayre, D., Kirz, J., Howells, M., Rarback, H. (eds) X-Ray Microscopy II. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 56. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39246-0_17
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